So what’s the big deal? Android phones and tablets are disposably cheap and with Gorilla glass are already pretty tough. So why do businesses still ask for rugged devices when they’re wildly more expensive than non-rugged varieties and the hardware’s often lower specification than the phone in your pocket. We’ve recently worked with a couple […]
Android interface for detection device
Just finished Phase 1 work on an Android interface for a detection device commonly used in the building industry. The device currently logs scan results every second and holds these locally for Bluetooth download to a PC at a later date. But of course if it’s got Bluetooth, we can access all that data on […]
Swift Credit
What if you want to monitor the movements of your staff (with their knowledge of course)? Swift Credit are a credit-control and debt collection agency that employ bailiffs to collect debts all over the country. They want to be sure the bailiffs are making the visits they’re supposed to be and/or whether they’ve been delayed. […]
NFC read / write
NFC tags create great opportunities for reading and storing small amounts of data and/or instructing a smartphone about the identity or status of an object. There are many different types and capacities of NFC chips to suit different uses but all can be placed in various ways: tags, stickers, patches, bracelets, lanyards or embedded in […]
Utilities process monitoring
We all know utilities providers (gas, water, electricity etc.) are forever digging up the road but how do they keep track of all those groundworks? Increasingly it’s with mobile apps… Working with another software developer, Bearded Hen have created a suite of Android apps for several well-known utility companies. These assign works to operators in […]
Daikin Service
Daikin, the market leading manufacturers of air conditioning units, had already created an iOS diagnostic app for use by its field service engineers. They came to Bearded Hen to create an Android version as they lacked the expertise in-house. Daikin chose to create native apps to give a quick, fluid and responsive experience with all […]
Safety Management
A tablet app designed for gathering the results of health and safety inspections in industrial environments. These results along with photographic evidence are uploaded to a central repository to keep full and permanent records of all inspections. Health and safety is an essential part of modern manufacturing and industry, and this app has reduced the […]
Specialist TV channel for a major car manufacturer
Working with one of the UK’s top advertising agencies, we’ve created an Android interface for searching, browsing and sharing video content for a trail-blazing specialist internet TV channel, belonging to one of the world’s major car manufacturers. Whilst our client handled the redesign of the entire video-streaming back-end and an upgraded website for this new […]
Stedders Football & Real Ale Guide
British football fans going to away matches have a unique problem. They may well be visiting a town for the first time and want to find a real-ale pub where they’ll be welcome and which is somewhere en route from transport links to the stadium. Stedders Guides were already a popular series of hard-copy town […]
Data Tote
ABOUT THE APP An established leader in the technology behind on-course betting at many of the UK’s horse and greyhound racing tracks, Data Tote wanted to free their users from traditional method of transacting via bookmakers’ stands by giving them personal tablets to work on the move via a localised wifi network. The tablets needed […]